Reference: Harlot
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HARLOT (Heb. z
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Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.
If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;
One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.
And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.
They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,